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Shake up at Cumulus Montgomery

Sad to hear.
Good guy with a bad Company.
Who is the new victim in the corner office?
 
J,

Couldn't agree with your comments more. Bill Jones was a worthy competitor who forced us to be the best we could be every day. This is a typical example of how a Regional VP will sacrifice a seasoned market executive in order to cover his own ass. Cueuless is truly the company that can't shoot straight.
 
jharmon said:
Sad to hear.
Good guy with a bad Company.
Who is the new victim in the corner office?
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John Rodriguez, Market Manager of 8 stations in Macon, Ga.
 
Bill Jones is one of the greatest guys in this business. Honest as the day is long and straight forward as an arrow. He has given up so much to spread himself as thin as needed to help these guys out when they needed him. Unquestionable loyalty. This radio business has lost one of it's best and now what; he'll probably be out of the business as so many others have gone from Cumulus.
 
I don't know Bill Jones personally, so he may be all that is portrayed in previous comments.

What DOES stand out for me when I hear his name is that inane, boneheaded quote from earlier this year about how those who work in radio now should have a bit of "swagger" about being a survivor in these times of high-quality people getting turfed by the big corporates.

I wonder how he feels about that now.

I have often wondered if John Dickey put him up to that...it sounds like something he would say.
 
Marco Comacho was famous for dumping any manager that would utter one word against him to the higher-ups. I thought that after he was gone; most of this stopped but apparently not. Marco would fire a manager and the Atlanta hotties would not even look into the reasons. There must have been a reason he was so untouchable. Who was Jones' VP? I'm guessing Spike Santee. What does the Montgomery rumor mill say the official cause of his departure was other than the fact that Rodriguez is someone's golden boy? The fact that Jones was/is an Alabama boy will make him hard to replace in Montgomery.
 
If you take the MM position at Cumulus, it is the Kiss of Death! I worked with Bill, and yes he was spread very thin! He hired me and served as OM of the Montgomery and Albany, GA markets. Cumulus added him with country format director. I will say that I learned a lot from Bill, and in the end he was a Cumulus guy...next to Alabama red, I think he bled Cumulus blue. I wish him the best! Good luck Mr. Jones, and thanks for allowing me to know you and work with you!
 
bill hired me out of a BAD SITUATION in 1998-- sure i bitched and moaned about him -- but he was ALWAYS A STRAIGHT SHOOTER-- FAIR AND BALANCED AND WAS A FAN OF MINE-- he gave me alot of leeway and at least 2 YEARS TO CLEAN UP MY ACT--

bill-- if you are reading this-- good luck- much appreciation--
 
Brightside of all of this = Crudulus continues to run themselves into the ground. Sometimes, this is an industry that just deserves what it's giving itself. Way to often good people are damned. Bad people are lifted up. It's disheartening. - R.D.P. I think you are right about the end time.
 
It's The Network: Former Cumulus/Montgomery, AL MM and Country Format Dir. Bill Jones has been named PD for The Country Network, where he will oversee overall presentation, selection of music videos and the development of programming. He will continue to be based in Montgomery, while former PD Chad Brock remains in a variety of capacities, including as the network's voice. "It's incredible what TCN has done in such a short amount of time," Jones says. "The Sinclair Broadcasting Group agreement [to carry TCN] alone will push the network past 17.7 million households, and I am thrilled to be joining the team." Jones left Cumulus earlier this week ( CAT 10/4). Congratulate him here.
 
Hmmm.
A third country network.
On broadcast stations?
They need to get real cozy with the major cable providers, like Comcast.
Or the satellite providers.
All tv households have some kind of wire coming in, for cable internet, phone, etc.
Good luck to them.
 
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